Casey NewtonI wrote about how Amazon’s bookstore is filling up with deepfaked authors and AI sludge — an early warning of the challenge that text generation poses to platforms. https://www.platformer.news/p/writers-are-getting-deepfaked-on
Laure@caseynewton do they care? If so they’d simply promote legit publishers as featured etc and have processes for others to filter for crap.
Matunos@LaureM @caseynewton they're the publisher in this case (technically it's self-published, but published via Amazon). I think they care but not enough to hire more humans to analyze quality of the submissions
Will O’Donnell@caseynewton it’s already near next to impossible to find a non-knockoff version of any product on Amazon. I read your snippet as good news for creators. Get off Amazon and sell your own barely concealed fanfic books directly. The more sludged up Amazon becomes the easier it is to stand on your own. Making money off a human typed facsimile.
John Jolley@caseynewton @blogdiva So…maybe shop at or sell your books at an actual bookstore instead of contributing to one of the most exploitative corporations in human history? 🤷🏻
Anybody buying or selling books on Amazon had this coming, and should have seen it coming too. #fuckamazon
Social Justice Warrior🦍@caseynewton I say fuck those platforms. Let their stores be filled with fake litteratures. This only opens the doors for more serious actors.
William Gunn@caseynewton Reddit, Quora, Stack Exchange, etc are all filling up with the stuff. It blew my mind that a site famous for being the thing you add to a search query to get results from real people would go all in on generated content. The news about Amazon getting in on this is just the latest episode in the "do you have no idea where your content comes from" show. My guess is that they'll use the fact that people are buying it as proof it's a good thing to do.